Meets: 6/14/2025, 9a-12p CST

Instructor: Tamara Dean
Location: Downtown
Cost: $95
Enrollment: 10 openings

Success in writing—whether starting your story that longs to be written, joyfully adding pages, being surprised by the muse’s gifts, or publishing—isn’t determined simply by talent, connections, or a deep understanding of craft.

Success depends on consistency and courage.

These qualities aren’t flashy. But they work. The good news is that everyone can develop and strengthen them.

Writing with Consistency and Courage is designed for writers at any level who are looking to begin a new project, resume an old one, overcome obstacles in a work-in-progress, or surprise themselves with a forward leap.

In this workshop you’ll learn practical tools for cultivating consistency and courage. We’ll explore why and how these qualities count for more than talent or craft when it comes to starting, finishing, and polishing drafts. You will be guided to examine what courage and consistency mean for your own writing. You’ll set achievable goals for making incremental progress and identify ways of meeting those goals. You’ll learn several techniques for getting to and staying at the page, overcoming resistance, and tapping into and trusting your creative intuition. Finally, you’ll compose new work in response to prompts, generating momentum that can carry you into your next writing session.

We won't share what we write, but we'll gather in a spirit of curiosity and generosity to support our own and each other’s writing. There will be plenty of time for questions.

This is a three-hour, single-day workshop; almost half that time is spent writing.

By the end of this workshop, you will have:

• Explored and defined what courage and consistency mean for your writing.

• Devised strategies for writing more boldly and regularly.

• Learned and experimented with techniques for overcoming resistance to writing.

• Practiced bravery and trusted your creative intuition while crafting new work.

Writing Goals:

• Responses to prompts about consistency, courage, obstacles and desired outcomes in

your writing practice.

• At least two pages of new writing while practicing courage and experimenting with generative techniques.

• Responses to prompts about the drafting experience, including successes, surprises, stumbles, and joys when challenged to push beyond resistance.

In discussions, writers will be encouraged to share individual challenges, revelations, and resolutions revealed during the workshop as a way of supporting themselves and each other.